THE ROANOKE BEACON
And Washington County News
Published Every Friday in Plymouth, Washington
County, North Carolina
WALTER H. PARAMORE Managing Editor
The Roanoke Beacon was established in 1889
si.d consolidated wun the Washington County
News in 1929.
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Entered as second-class matter at the post office
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March 3, 1879,__
Friday, July 26, 1935
Keep Sober Is the Main Object
Who is going to drink the store liquor when prices
range from St).00 a gallon for the cheapest to S21.20
a gallon for the better grades, by the pint? Kvident
ly the large majority of those who peeped in on the
opening a few days ago will buy very little because
of the price which creates a rich man's monopoly and
virtually denies the poor man a right to indulge in
the habit. The situation ' likely to cause dissention;
yet, if the new plan with its high prices causes the
poor man to drink less, it will have doubly blessed
him.
The question is not tax nor cost—but keeping
sober. It is the duty4of every one to preach temper
ance by not encouraging drinking, but rathey dis
courage drinking by telling the truth about its de
structive influence on man and all the institutions
of men.
The fewer the drinkers in a family, in a school, a
church, a town, county, state or nation, the better
it will be for all. And yet we find some so foolish
they joke and laugh at drinking as if it was a trivial j
matter. We fail to count the cost.
The Way Is Still Dark lor Millions
Direct relief that has been extended by the govern
ment to every corner of the country, is nearing an
end, reports state. Many millions have been blessed
by the relief provisions, and the succor has been
worth all it cost, although the system may have fall
en far short of perfection. One of its shortcomings
has been that too many people have learned to de
pend upon the welfare handouts rather than upon
themselves. The resuU. was not of the government's
intent and purpose; it extended aid that the people
might aid themselves. When a person gets to the
point that he loses the desire to look out for himself
and jumps for the opportunity to throw himself on
the public, that person has anything but a dark and
weary future to look for.
When we consider how extremely weak and help
less many people are, it is easy to understand that
thousands will not know which way to turn when
the supporting hand finally withdraws. Some piti. ole
cases are already seen. Men of small mental capacity
are finding themselves with no course to follow, and
apparently with no place to turn.
The way is still dark for millions.
Progress Does Not Depend On Liquor
The fellow who declared that Williamston and
Robersonville would not sell any tobacco unless liquor
shops were opened to compete with those in other
towns, certainly had more faith in liquor than the
facts justify. In tact, the man who finds good in al
cohol for anything, will find himself mistaken some
day.
Last year a North Carolina county without liquor
and a Virginia county with liquor adjoining each
other furnished ample proof of the falsity of such an
argument. The North Carolina dry county gained in
sales while the Virginia wet county lost in sales. We
refer to Rockingham County in our own State, the
people of which recently confirmed their faith in the
county as a trade center that continues to thrive
without the aid of liquor.
They have sufficient knowledge to know that liquor
builds nothing good. They know that the men or
the bu-iness clinging to liquor for help will ere long
fall.
The poisom us false propaganda put out in East
Carolina is not only a shame, but worse—it is a sin.
Unbalanced Reading Bad Plan
Too many folks read no news beyond the gambling
sheets and the sports section. They never read the
general news or the editorials. Of course when a
man buys a paper he has a right to read the parts he
likes and leave off the parts he does not like. Vet,
the people that read only the gamblers' markets, and
the sports will fall a long way below the average in
intillegence when the final balance is brought down.
The policy of the general newspaper is to give the
folks what they want when they should give them
what they need.
The wise mother is always careful to give the
child what it needs rather than what it wants be
cause she knows the wisdom of such a course. She
rather the child cried for things it wants rather than
cry because of the things it did not need.
We may want nothing but pleasure now. On the
other hand we are going to want and need something
some time when the answer will come “too late",
Supporting the Trusts
Our very sudden and noble desire to execute the
law is very commendable. Vet, those so enthusiastic
in their law enforcement, many of them for the first
time in their lives in the enforcement roll, perhaps
little know that they are building one of the biggest
and most dangerous monopolies in the history of man.
The Mellon-Raskob whisky monopoly and allied part
ners are now selling their liquor at $2.65 a pint to
Martin County people when liquor, just as pure and
just as safe could be made in the county and be plac
ed on sale and result in about the same profit after
paying the Federal tax. The manufacture of liquor
at home would keep the money at home rather than
add it to the vast fortunes of a trust which has
drenched Congress and Legislatures with liquor for
years for the purpose of procuring favorable legisla
tion.
It is a known fact that witnesses, jurors, solicitors,
judges, legislators—not all, but many of them—are
inclined to rule with and work for the fellow who
furnishes them plenty of liquor to drink. The moon
shiner and bootlegger are very undesirable citizens;
yet he has never done the county much more harm
than Andrew Mellon has done.
A Far-Fetched Name
“'State Progress”, a weekly newspaper published in
Durham, calls itself "North Carolina’s Independent
Newspaper.” Their definition of “‘independent,, may
or may not be a hundred percent correct. However,
the paper reminds one observing a nurse forcing a
dose of castor oil down the throat of a child by hold
ing the subject’s nose effecting a swallowed dose,
which is a kind of independence that works well for
the nurse but affords the child very little independ
ence.
Some times ‘“radical” would be a more appropriate
word to use than “'independent”, judging from the
subject matter in the case
Not All Against AAA
Several Virginia peanut cleaners seek to avoid pay
ing the one-cent per pound processing tax through
injunctions on the ground that the law is unconstitu
tional.
The Old Dominion Peanut Company and the
Franklin Peanut Company have obtained temporary
injunctions from Federal Judge -Luther B. Way re
straining the Federal Revenue collector from collect
ing the tax.
The only company raising its voice so far in favor
of the processing tax is the Columbian Peanut firm
through its president, H. C. Smithers, who says the
Agricultural Adjustment Administration has helped
the peanut business, not only the farmer but the
processor as well. But for the AAA he says the mills
now would be overstocked with cheap peanuts with
poor sales. He asserts that sales and shipments have
been much larger than they were before the processing
tax was put on.
The Columbian Company has already paid to the
farmers $700,000 in such tax and Mr. Smithers says
he is for it and expects to pay it just as long as it
is law. Mr. Smithers' attitude toward the tax is the
proper spirit and the only spirit which will insure the
farmer fair play in the coming years.
Mr. Smithers’ company has 27 factories in five
states, and has a big influence on the market, handl
ing about one-third of the product, according to re
ports. It certainly is encouraging when a firm the
'size of the Columbian comes to the support of the
AAA instead of trying to wreck it.
Apparently Good at Both Jobs
Sheriff Victor Meekins, of Dare County, is said to
be a very capable and understanding officer, and he
may be all that; yet, we rather think he is a better
editor, judging from the second issue of his newly
starts off with those qualities deserving success,
born paper, the Dare County Times. The paper
President Roosevelt’s Biggest Battle
Ruxboro Courier.
Since the inauguration of President Roosevelt he
had been instrumental in having many of his recom
mendations adopted by the Congress, but we believe
the most far reaching is his plan to tax the wealth and
see that it pays its proportionate part of the expense
of the government. Of course, the National Chamber
of Commerce, which seems to be the tool of Big Busi
ness, is lighting this proposition like grim death, but
we hope Congress is going to pass his recommenda
tion and give him a free hand. He is not trying to
destroy business, but simply wants to see that wealth
pays it- proper part, which all know it has not been
doing. The most casual reader can not forget the
many acts of the former secretary of the treasury,
Mr. Mellon; how he manipulated and secured big
refunds, etc., and also the startling disclosure that
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, with all of his millions, did
not pay an income tax for several years.
With the aid of able lawyers many who should have
paid in much to the treasury failed to pay a penny,
but no o with the little fellow who was receiving a
salary of from two to five thousand dollars; no sir,
every one of these little fellows had to come across—
and oftentimes were penalized and made to pay extra
taxes because they were slow in making their returns.
Give our President the bill he has outlined and you
will see a very different state of affairs. Set aside the
income from his proposition to begin paying the defi
cit, as Mr. Morgenthau suggests, and in a few years
there will no longer be any deficit.
I Rare E lement Data
Interests Farmers
-■■ - —
Information continues to pile up
concerning the importance of tlie so
called impurities, c r lesser known ele
ments. to profitable agriculture in the
South. New experiments are being re
ported with increasing frequency. Fer
tilizer theories, too, in the light of the
new knowledge which rare element
research has uncovered, scent likely to
be upset to a degree, in the opinion oi
plant physiologists, even though some
of the beliefs have stood unquestioned
for more than 50 years.
The common prescription of nitro
gen, phosphate and potash as the all
sufficient crop diet, is almost as inade
quate as metal tires on a motor car.
Evidence that some of the impurities
in natural Chilean Nitrate are prob
ably as essential as the nitrogen it
self, is indicated by tests comparing
mixed fertilizers made up of old style
natural materials on the one hand and
pure materials on the other. The old
style natural mixture, with the impur
ities which Nature herself put there
in her own wise blend and balance
shows it to' have hidden values. These
hidden values are the impurities—rare
elements such as iodine, boron, iron,
copper, zinc, calcium, sulphur, man
large numbers of local institutions to
FOUND: BUNCH OF KEYS IN
alley on Water front near Hamp
ton’s artesian well. Leather case. Five
keys. Can be procured by calling at
Beacon office, describing keys and
case, paying for this ad and a small
reward for finder. jy-19 2t
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
Having qualified as administrator of
the estate of Donnie M. Herrington,
late of Washington County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
holding claims against the esttae to
file same with the undersigned at
Roper, N. C., on or before July 23,
1936, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate are urged to
make immediate settlement.
This the 23rd day of July, 1935.
N. S. HERRINGTON,
Administrator of the estate of Don
nie M. Herrington. j>'26 6t
" NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of ti e power
and authority contained in that cer
tain deed of trud executed by E. L.
Davis a"d wife, Ethel Davis, to T. R.
Hassell, trustee, dated the Sth day of
January, 1917. and duly recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds of
W ashington Countv. North Carolina,
in book 69, page 335, to which refer
ence is hereby made anil the same
made a part hereof, default having
been made in the payment of the in
debtedness thereby secured, the un
dersigned trustee will offer for sale,
to the highest bidder, for cash, at the
courthouse door in Washington Coun
ty, at 12 o'clock noon, on Tuesday,
the 20th day of August. 1935, that cer
tain property described in the said in
strument as follows:
All that entire tract of land contain
ing fifty acres and known as the east
LEGAL NOTICES
half of the Hardy Davis homestead
descended to tire said E. L. Davis
from his father, said tract of land ad
joining the lands of E. C. Wallace,
W. I- Sherrod, and E. D. Chesson.
The bidder at such sale will be re
quired to deposit as much as ten per
cent of the amount bid in cash as a
guaranty of good faith, pending con
firmation of the sale and the right is
reserved to reject any and all bids.
This the 19th dav of July, 1935.
T. R. HASSELL,
jy26 4t Trustee.
By \V. L. W hitley, attorney.
NOTICE OF SALE
By mutual agreement and consent
and in an effort to obtain the best pos
sible price for the property herein
after described, the undersigned will
offer at public sale at the courthouse
door of Washington County to the
highest bidder, for cash, on Saturday,
the 27th day of July, at 12 o’clock noon
the following described land:
Lying and being in the Town of
Plymouth on the corner of Jefferson
and Fourth Street, and being three
fourths of Lot No. 29 of the plan of
said town, and now known as the Sal
lie E. Lewis property, said lot being
approximately 150 feet on Jefferson
Street and 100 feet on Fourth Street.
The said property is being offered
for cash, and if a satisfactory bid is
obtained for said property the same
will he accepted at said sale and will
be then and there confirmed, other
wise all bids will be rejected.
THE HEIRS OF
SALLIE E. LEWIS.
By: Z. Y. Norman, Attorney. It
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as executor of the
estate of D. I. Davenport, late of
Washington County, North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons holding
claims against the estate to file same
with the undersigned at Creswcll, N.
C., on or before July 16, 1936, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
-aid estate are urged to make im
mediate settlement.
This 16th dav of July, 1935.
U. G. DAVENPORT,
Executor estate of D. I. Daven
iy-19-6-t port, Creswell, N. C.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Washington County.
By virtue of the authority contained
in that certain mortgage executed on
[lie 15th day of August 1911, by Elijah
Joyner and wife, Della, to A. L.
Owens, Mortgagee, and recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds
You Are Cordially Invited
To
Go on a merry-go-round
Of
Park Avenue parties with the
polo set and the cocktail crowd.
You will enjoy every minute
of this entertainment, so be
sure to attend!
New Theatre
Tuesday, July 30th
Adm. 10c-25c
Chester Morris in
Fve Been Around
with Rochelle Hudson
and Phyllis Brooks.
LEGAL NOTICES
for Washington County, N. C., in
Book 59, page 137, the default having
been made in the conditions ami pay
ment of said mortgage, the undersign
ed Mortgagee will, on the 3rd day of
August 1935 at 12 o’clock, noon, at
tlie courthouse door of Washington
County, N, C., offer for sale at Public
Auction to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described property:
Being part of lot No. 19 in the
1 own of Plymouth, and beginning at
Robert i aylor’s Southeast corner on
Fourth Street and running eastwardlv
with said street 49 feet to Blount’s
line, thence westwardly 49 feet to the
said J aylor s line, thence southward
ly along said Taylor's line 200 feet to
Fourth Street, the beginning. This
being same lot bought of Levi Blount
and wife by deed dated September 3,
1911, and recorded in book 53 on page
56 in the office of the Register of
Deeds for Washington County. This
LEGAL NOTICES
; mortgage includes all the buildings
jtliat have been erected on the above
i described property before and after
! the execution of this mortgage.
A deposit of 10 percent of the a
mount paid will be required of the
succesful bidder at the hour of sale
to he forfeited to the said mortgagee
for the benefit of the holder of the
said notes upon his failure to com
ply with said bid upon tender of deed.
This the 1st day of July, 1935.
A. L. OWENS,
jy-5 4t Mortgagee.
By Edward L. Owens., Atty.
BABY CARRIAGE
FOR SALE
In Good Condition
SEE W. F. WINSLOW
BEST COOKS DEMAND
SNOW CREAM FLOUR
White As Snow — Rich As Cream
SOLD BY ALL GOOD GROCERS
Wholesale Distributor
B. G. Campbell
PLYMOUTH NORTH CAROLINA
Priced Low to Move Quick
of Reguar $1.00
BAGS
HAND
Patent Cloth and Imi
tation Leather in
Black, Brown, Navy
and Beige
ON SALE
Friday and Saturday
39c
BOYS' RIB SHIRTS
Were 15c, now
MEN’S SHORTS
34 to 40, were 19c, now
Men’s Rayon UNION SUITS
38 to 46, were 39c, now
MEN’S WASH TIES,
Were 10c, now
8C
CHILDREN’S
ORGANDIE AND PRINTED
BATISTE DRESSES
Were 39c
Now
29c
Were 49c
Now
39c
Were 59c &
69c — Now
39c
WHITE RAYON TAMS,
Were 10c, now
WHITESAILOR HATS,
Were '.Oc", now .
TOBACCO
TWINE
5 lbs.
$1.69
WINSLOW'S
5c to $1.00 Store
Nice and Fresh
ORANGE
SLICES
10c lb.
Beautiful
Gleaming
■New Silver
of Latest
Designs
Useful Sm^ll Items
Hollow-ware, Flat Ware, in Plate
D, Sterling and Chromium. Dainty
small Sterling pieces, Beverage Sets,
Table Lamps, Handsome and De
pendable Clocks. Gifts which will
be an ever-present reminder of the
thoughtfulness of the giver.
You’ll find here a gift in keeping
with the amount you want to spend.
Come in and let us show them to
you..
A Nice
Selection of
Table Lamps
of Newest
Styles
WE RECOMMEND
GIFTS
of Everlasting
Beauty and
Usefulness
Platters
Sandwich and Bread
Trays
Candle Sticks
Salt and Peppers
Covered Dishes
Range Sets
Gravy Boats
Relish Dishes
Don G. Davis
JEWELER
PLYMOUTH
NORTH CAROLINA
Express your sentiment and good
wishes TO THE NEWLYWEDS
with a gift as oeautiful and enduring
as the wedding itself.
We take pride in our showing of
such gifts and we are always glad of
an opportunity to assist you in mak
ing your selection.
Our stock fairly shines with new
items. Come and see them.
Cocktail &
Beverage Sets
Clocks of Beauty and
Dependability